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OCTOBER 2024 The recent cyber attack on the Internet Archive is deplorable and can be reasonably compared with the repeated burning of the Great Library of Alexandria. I have used the Wayback Machine extensively, but, until the full extent of the permanent damage is clear, I am unable to assess its effect on Atlantipedia. At […]Read More »
Joining The Dots
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Chechelnitsky
Chechelnitsky, Albert M. *
Albert M. Chechelnitsky (1935-2011) was a Russian astrophysicist who, in a short 2007 book entitled Challenge of Plato: Atlantida Incognita, put forward the daring idea that Atlantis had been situated in Alaska and the Pillars of Herakles in the Bering Strait.
It appears that his book was initially only available in an electronic format(a) however it now seems to be also available in hard copy(b), but I cannot locate a seller.
Alaska
Alaska or more precisely its Yukon River Valley was identified as the location of Atlantis in 2004 by a Russian astrophysicist, Albert M. Chechelnitsky, in his book Challenge of Plato: Atlantida Incognita[514]. He claims that this was the result of a Pole Shift although he admits a lack of scientific evidence to support this idea!
A few years ago Jason Colavito wrote(a) of a claim made by Linda Moulton-Howe that twenty years earlier, following a nuclear test in the region, a large cavity was created about 50 miles from Mount McKinley, within which was a pyramid larger than Giza’s Great Pyramid!
Last Year (2018), The Daily Star, published a similar piece of drivel(b), claiming that a pyramid had been identified on Google Earth off the coast of Alaska, again comparing it to Giza. Not without precedent the article was headlined Atlantis Found?
>More recently, Michael Szymczyk the author of Atlantis & Its Fate In The Postdiluvian World [1964], in which he makes some extraordinary claims and like Chelchelnitsky, without providing any evidence. He pinpoints an underwater site near Kodiak Island off the northwest Pacific coast of Alaska as the location of Atlantis!<
(a) https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/alaskas-underground-pyramid-a-case-of-faulty-memory
(b) https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/atlantis-found-proof-conspiracy-google-17142511